Payload
COSMOS 248
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COSMOS 248 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 19, 1968 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 19, 1968 at 04:20 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2A →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- I2M 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 146 km
- Periapsis
- 139 km
- Inclination
- 62.2°
- Orbital period
- 87.34 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,400 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-090A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3503
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 9.0535 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 26, 1980
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 26, 1980
- Time in service
- 11.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed